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The clerical governments in the context of a government system in the Czech Republic. Reasons for the creation, evaluation of activities, causes of popularity
Bernard, Aleš ; Novotný, Vilém (advisor) ; Nekola, Martin (referee)
The presented thesis gives a comprehensive overview of the development of government systems in the Czech Republic since its inception in 1993 until the elections to the Parliament of the Czech Republic in 2010. The main attention will be paid to the reasons for an occurrence of clerical governments, to the evaluation of their activities and to the causes of their popularity among the Czech public. The basis for meeting the objectives of this thesis was the study of literature, documents and publications dedicated to the issue of Czech governments. Important sources of information were electronic resources of state institutions, such as the Government of the Czech Republic, the Parliament of the Czech Republic, the Constitutional Court, the Czech Statistical Office, etc., but also data from polls conducted by reputable companies such as STEM, Ltd. or the Center for Public Opinion Research. The main research method are the semi-structured discussions with the direct players ( former ministers of the clerical government of Josef Tošovský and also of Jan Fischer ), with the Czech political scene experts and also with the present high politicians and the candidates for a president that was elected in January 2013.
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The approval process of participation of the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic in foreign operations
Petružálková, Kateřina ; Střítecký, Vít (advisor) ; Karásek, Tomáš (referee)
Diploma thesis deals with the approval process of participation of the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic in foreign operations. The aim of this thesis is to find political elite's dominant motivation which leads to the decision take part in foreign military operations. Hypothesis assumes that according to the material capabilities and power ambitions of the Czech Republic there is only one dominant motivation which can be described as commitments to the membership in UN, NATO or EU. To fulfil this aim we used a content analysis of relevant discussions realized in the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic since 1993 until present. Identified arguments are assign with one of the five relevant categories (policy related to the commitments to the membership, security and political interests, historical symbolism, potential of profit in the future and influence of the domestic political situation). Analysis also considers the revelation of official statements of the political party and speeches of its members in the Chamber of Deputies.
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Legislative cosponsorship network of Chamber of Deputies, Czech Parliament
Klinger, Michael ; Brabec, Dušan (advisor) ; Hájek, Lukáš (referee)
The bachelor thesis Legislative "cosponsorship" network of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic (the PSP CR) for the period 2017-2020 describes and analyses relations between members of the PSP CR in the certain period using data the submission of bills. The basic starting point for the theoretical part of the work is the creation of legislative networks. The thesis first the very essence of the use of legislative networks in the field of political science and provides the illustrative studies that have in the past dealt with the research of relations between legislators through legislative networks. Further in this part, the term "cosponsorship" is defined so that it can be explained in the context of the Czech legislative process. Subsequently, the methodological basis of the research, which is the method of Social Network Analysis (SNA), is presented. The thesis describes the substance and the principle of its operation together with some of its network statistics which are then applied to answer the research questions. The main part of the work then focuses on the creation of a legislative network by applying the SNA method and its visualization through the computer programme Gephi. Afterwards, the created network is analysed on the three levels by the method SNA....
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Contemporary Public Debate on Religion: Parliamentary Debate on Church Property Restitution and its Taxation in the Czech Republic
Fila, Filip ; Matějka, Ondřej (advisor) ; Spalová, Barbora (referee) ; Mole, Richard Charles McKenzie (referee)
In order to fill a gap in the literature and illustrate what a public debate on religion might look like in a country as unchurched as the Czech Republic, this thesis conducted thematic content analysis on two parliamentary debates related to church property restitution. Transcripts of the debates in The Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic on the 2012 Church Property Restitution Bill and the 2017-2019 Proposal to Tax Church Property Restitutions were used to answer theoretically and empirically informed questions pertaining to secularisation. The finding was that it was not religion necessarily, but rather matters of finances, legality, and procedure that figured quite prominently in the debate. Despite this, closer analysis revealed some relevant reflection on religion, most notable on in what sort of relation should churches and religious communities be with the state. The main takeaway from the research is that Members of Parliament acknowledged low individual level religiosity and did not promote something resembling the concept of vicarious religion. There speeches were on the whole interpreted to be more in line with advocating secularisation, rather than desecularisation.
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Transformation of political elites in the Czech Republic
Čápová, Lucie ; Mlejnek, Josef (advisor) ; Švec, Kamil (referee)
The diploma thesis focuses on the examination of political elites with the field of focus being the members of the government of the Czech Republic, the leadership of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic. And selected political groups with selected members. The people in question are the chairman of the political groups. The oldest and youngest men and the oldest and youngest women. This is applied to three selected periods, which are being the years of 1995, 2005 and 2015. First of all, every period will be examined separately, then the periods will be compared. The comparisons will be as follows: 1995-2005, 2005-2015 and 1995-2015. The diploma thesis is divided into five chapters. The first chapter focuses on the theory of elites, where are described chosen theories. From the second up to the fourth chapter, the diploma thesis is devoted to the descriptions of the members of the Czech government, leaders of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech parliament and selected political groups with selected members in the years of 1995, 2005 and 2015. The last fifth chapter is focused on the mutual comparisons of the years of 1995-2005, 2005-2015 and 1995-2015. The diploma thesis purpose is to record the changes of the political elites in the government of the Czech Republic...
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Analysis of the impact of individual political parties represented in the Deputy Chamber of the Czech Republic on pension reforms, their consistency and the resulting form of reforms in between the years 1990-2015
Baloun, Matyáš ; Brabec, Petr (advisor) ; Křeček, Štěpán (referee)
This thesis introduces the influence of individual political parties represented in the Deputy Chamber of the Parliament of the Czech Republic on the pension reforms, their consistency and the subsequent form of the reforms in between the years 1990 - 2015. The political ideologies that connect to the forms of pension theory are analyzed in the theoretical part, followed by the retirement models, including their funding, that are commonly used worldwide. The current state of the pension system in the Czech Republic and the introduction of the Czech post-revolutionary political system are presented at the end of the theoretical part. There are chronologically arranged periods in the practical part, in which the individual changes in the development of pension systems in the Czech Republic are shown. The party's pre-election campaigns are presented in selected periods, and an analysis of the political influence on the enforced final changes in the pension system is then conducted. The influences of political subjects on the final forms of the law are summarized based on available data at the end of the thesis, proving that it is possible to declare important laws with negligible influence on the final form of individual laws in the Czech political environment even with a relatively small number of Member of Parliaments in the Deputy Chamber of the Czech Republic.
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The approval process of participation of the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic in foreign operations
Petružálková, Kateřina ; Střítecký, Vít (advisor) ; Karásek, Tomáš (referee)
Diploma thesis deals with the approval process of participation of the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic in foreign operations. The aim of this thesis is to find political elite's dominant motivation which leads to the decision take part in foreign military operations. Hypothesis assumes that according to the material capabilities and power ambitions of the Czech Republic there is only one dominant motivation which can be described as commitments to the membership in UN, NATO or EU. To fulfil this aim we used a content analysis of relevant discussions realized in the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic since 1993 until present. Identified arguments are assign with one of the five relevant categories (policy related to the commitments to the membership, security and political interests, historical symbolism, potential of profit in the future and influence of the domestic political situation). Analysis also considers the revelation of official statements of the political party and speeches of its members in the Chamber of Deputies.
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The approval process of participation of the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic in foreign operations
Petružálková, Kateřina ; Střítecký, Vít (advisor) ; Karásek, Tomáš (referee)
Diploma thesis deals with the approval process of participation of the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic in foreign operations. The aim of this thesis is to find political elite's dominant motivation which leads to the decision take part in foreign military operations. Hypothesis assumes that according to the material capabilities and power ambitions of the Czech Republic there is only one dominant motivation which can be described as commitments to the membership in UN, NATO or EU. To fulfil this aim we used a content analysis of relevant discussions realized in the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic since 1993 until present. Identified arguments are assign with one of the five relevant categories (policy related to the commitments to the membership, security and political interests, historical symbolism, potential of profit in the future and influence of the domestic political situation). Analysis also considers the revelation of official statements of the political party and speeches of its members in the Chamber of Deputies.
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The clerical governments in the context of a government system in the Czech Republic. Reasons for the creation, evaluation of activities, causes of popularity
Bernard, Aleš ; Novotný, Vilém (advisor) ; Nekola, Martin (referee)
The presented thesis gives a comprehensive overview of the development of government systems in the Czech Republic since its inception in 1993 until the elections to the Parliament of the Czech Republic in 2010. The main attention will be paid to the reasons for an occurrence of clerical governments, to the evaluation of their activities and to the causes of their popularity among the Czech public. The basis for meeting the objectives of this thesis was the study of literature, documents and publications dedicated to the issue of Czech governments. Important sources of information were electronic resources of state institutions, such as the Government of the Czech Republic, the Parliament of the Czech Republic, the Constitutional Court, the Czech Statistical Office, etc., but also data from polls conducted by reputable companies such as STEM, Ltd. or the Center for Public Opinion Research. The main research method are the semi-structured discussions with the direct players ( former ministers of the clerical government of Josef Tošovský and also of Jan Fischer ), with the Czech political scene experts and also with the present high politicians and the candidates for a president that was elected in January 2013.
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Vliv politického cyklu na deficity státního rozpočtu
Prokešová, Dominika
This diploma thesis is focused on issues with political cycles which are in close relation to a short-term fiscal imbalance. The political cycle is defined as inten-tional abuse of fiscal policy by a government with intention of reelection. Its effect can be seen in a pre-election period as a decrease of tax income and a growth of government spending. The framework of empirical analysis is a peri-od of 1993-2013 where occurrence of political-budget cycle in the Czech Repub-lic is researched. Another goal of the thesis is to identify which government actions are used by politicians to influence the electorate in their choice of poli-tical party for the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic.
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